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September 2016 Av / Elul 5776 Volume 51 No 6930 Alpha Road / Dallas, Texas 75240-3602 / 972-661-1810 / FAX 972-661-2636 E-mail: [email protected] / Facebook: Temple Shalom Dallas / Website: www.templeshalomdallas.org SEPTEMBER 2016 AV / ELUL 5776 VOLUME 51 NO. 3 SERVICES FRIDAY SATURDAY SATURDAY September 2 September 10 September 17 Re’eh / Deuteronomy 12:29 - 14:29 10:30 AM - Bar Mitzvah Service 10:30 AM – Bar Mitzvah Service 6:30 PM - Service Hunter Greenstein Andrew Nagel Epstein Chapel Son of Lisa & David Greenstein Son of Lee & Steve Nagel Sanctuary Sanctuary SATURDAY 10:30 AM - Morning Worship 10:30AM - Morning Worship September 3 Epstein Chapel Epstein Chapel 10:30 AM Morning Worship Epstein Chapel 5:00 PM - Bat Mitzvah Service 5:00 PM - Bat Mitzvah Service Kendall Kohn Samantha Toppel 5:00 PM - Bat Mitzvah Service Daughter of Karen and Alan Kohn Daughter of Stefanie & Steve Toppel Juliet Klatsky Epstein Chapel Epstein Chapel Daughter of Wendi & Howard Klatsky Sanctuary FRIDAY FRIDAY September 16 September 23 FRIDAY Ki Tetze / Deuteronomy 23:8 - 24:13 Ki Tavo / Deuteronomy 26:12 - 28:6 September 9 6:30 PM - Service 6:00 PM - Munchkins Minyan Shoftim / Deuteronomy 18:6 - 19:13 Epstein Chapel 6:30 PM - Service Rabiner Children’s Library Epstein Chapel 6:30 PM - Service SATURDAY Epstein Chapel September 24 10:30 AM - Morning Worship 6:30pm Friday Services are preceded by a 6:00pm Wine & Cheese Reception. Epstein Chapel 7:00 PM - Selichot Program & Havdalah FRIDAY Saturday, September 24 September 30 7:00pm - Program & Havdalah Radnitz Social Hall Nitzavim / Deuteronomy 29:9 - 31:30 8:00pm - Dessert Oneg Congregational Gathering Space 6:30 PM - Service 8:30pm - Service Sanctuary Epstein Chapel See page 6 of your High Holy Day Brochure for details. We want to honor the mitzvah work in which our B’nei Mitzvah students are engaged. Each month we include information we have received from that month’s families. Hunter Baer Greenstein September 2016 B’nei Mitzvah Son of Lisa & David Greenstein Date: September 10 School: Parkhill Junior High Juliet Klatsky Mitzvah Project: Hunter volunteers at Daughter of Wendi & Howard Klatsky Operation Kindness. He has a great love for Date: September 3 animals. Most of the time he is walking the School: Renner Middle School dogs. Hunter also likes to spend time with the Mitzvah Project: Juliet has a passion for cats and the kittens in the cat rooms. dance and wants others to enjoy dance, too. Hobbies: Basketball, tennis, swimming and reading. She has collected all kinds of dancewear (tap, jazz, ballet and pointe shoes, costumes Samantha (Sam) Toppel and activewear) to donate to the Dallas Black Dance Theatre. Daughter of Stefanie & Steve Toppel Hobbies: Dance, volleyball, arts & crafts, going to GFC, Date: September 17 traveling with family, spending time with her friends. School: Renner Middle School Mitzvah Project: Sam partnered with World Drew Nagel Wear Project to collect donations of gently Son of Lee & Steve Nagel worn shoes and clothing. In honor of family Date: September 17 and friends who have battled with breast cancer, Sam donated School: Fowler Middle School 100% of the funds she raised to The Magnolia Tree Hobbies: Baseball, reading and any kind of Foundation, which educates and provides financial assistance art. to those affected by the BRCA mutation. Hobbies: Xcel Gymnastics, making YouTube videos September 2016 www.templeshalomdallas.org Page 2 I Was Just Thinking... Each month, Merriam-Webster, the organizations--such as those in St. Louis. Black Lives Matter dictionary people, provides a list of also became the name of a network developed by Garza, new words that are being added to its Cullors and a third friend, New York-based community dictionary; new words that reflect an organizer Opal Tometi, which now has more than 30 local evolving global perspective on family, chapters. Its mission is “to rebuild the Black liberation community, world events, movement,” this time led by women and including queer and environment and the like. For transgender voices.” example, “pokemoning” or the act of While the need for a renewed expression of protest in playing pokemon or pokemon GO is the African-American community in the wake of so many actually a thing! And, just in time for police shootings may be justified, what was so shocking was the election, “Clintonian” – relating to or referring to the the swift alliance that arose, particularly after Ferguson and policies, strategies or character of Bill Clinton, or “Trumpish” Michael Brown, from Palestinian activists who set to Twitter – resembling Donald Trump in appearance, manner or to voice support for the Brown family and for Black Lives attitude. The list goes on and on. I remember feeling aghast Matter. For the Palestinians, they saw the same thing that at the prospect that “funnily” was a serious contender to be they believed was happening to them being played out in added, which it was. the streets of the U.S. in the black community. Images of Recently, I learned a new protestors in Ferguson throwing word – “intersectionality” a term “There are real issues of racism and police back at police the tear gas coined by legal scholar Kimberlé responses that must be addressed in our canisters were juxtaposed with Crenshaw in the 1980s and country. There are real issues of personal Palestinian protesters doing the according to writer Anna Isaacs, responsibility and respect for authority and same thing. As the Black Lives “…it is a term to highlight the dual legal institutions that must be addressed in Matter movement grew, so did the oppressions faced by black connection between them and the our country. Mobilizing and protesting must women—sexism and racism— liberation movement of the be held sacred as the 1st amendment allows. and the feminist and anti-racism Palestinians. Black Lives Matter movements that failed to fully We, as Jews, must always be willing to lend marches and protests often represent and advocate for them. our voice to the voiceless and strength to the contained banners, t-shirts and, The term has come into popular weary. I know we will always do that. And, certainly, voices connecting in the use to describe the ways that we must always be ready to assert the minds of those communities, the various systems of oppression rightness of our story, as well, protecting the two struggles as really 2 sides of intersect and overlap, precious history that has allowed us to the same coin. Watching the video encompassing other forms of survive.” When I See Them, I See Us is a discrimination and issues. It has frightening video linking 2 become a banner under which minority groups link up to separate and distinct issues and creating an intersectionality fight what critics see as unrelated battles, but what activists that is quite as problematic as it is puzzling. This past see as iterations of the same struggle for justice.” January, ADL Deputy Director Kenneth Jacobson noted Over the past four years, intersectionality has taken a that, “…There is ‘no rational connection between the new, and for the Jewish community, complicated life force challenge of racism in America and the situation facing the as the Black Lives Matter movement has grown in influence Palestinians. While there can be criticism of Israeli treatment and numbers. Remember that Black Lives Matter began not of the Palestinians, it is not a question of institutionalized with the riots in Ferguson, Missouri with the killing of racism, and conflating these two issues won’t help solve Michael Brown, but a year earlier, in 2013, when George either one’.” Zimmerman was acquitted for killing Trayvon Martin. Consider, for a moment, the history of the Jewish According to Isaacs, “In response to Zimmerman’s acquittal response to the Civil Rights Movement of the 60s in which and the anger and grief that came with it, Alicia Garza, a the Jewish community played a prominent if not significant community organizer in the Bay Area, posted on Facebook role in the passage of the Civil Rights Act in 1964 and the what she described as ‘a love note to black people’.” It Voting Rights Act of 1965. Who can forget the image of Dr. concluded with these words: “Black people. I love you. I love King and Rabbi Heschel walking arm in arm from Selma to us. Our lives matter.” Her friend, Los Angeles-based Montgomery. When civil rights were being trampled upon, community organizer Patrisse Cullors, attached a hashtag to the historic Jewish call to help the fallen and lift up the create #BlackLivesMatter--a declaration that would come to needy was heeded and the Jewish community was link the many disparate police and extrajudicial shootings of mobilized into action. Despite fractures in our relationship black people across the country. “Black Lives Matter” over the years with the black community going back to the became a rallying cry, inspiring a movement composed of a aftermath of the 6 day war, our bond is still strong and our diffuse world of national and local racial justice histories commingled. (continued on next page) September 2016 www.templeshalomdallas.org Page 3 That’s why the intersectionality of Black Lives Matter and There are real issues of racism and police responses that their recent endorsement of the BDS movement (Boycott, must be addressed in our country. There are real issues of Divestment and Sanction of Israel) is so troubling. Last personal responsibility and respect for authority and legal month Black Lives Matter published their first ever platform in institutions that must be addressed in our country. Mobilizing which it called out only one country – Israel – for what it and protesting must be held sacred as the 1st amendment called “discriminatory practices” calling Israel “apartheid” and allows.
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